Description

1926 National League Golden Jubilee Souvenir Baseball Set.
The fiftieth anniversary of the Senior Circuit was met with
appropriate pomp and circumstance, with a spectacular array of
baseball legends congregating at Manhattan's Hotel Astor on
Groundhog's Day of 1926. Attendees found boxes such as the
presented model awaiting them at their banquet tables, golden
cardboard containers lined with blue velvet and holding a pair of
ONL (Heydler) spheres. The balls--one blank, the other bearing
photographic images of all National League presidents--exhibit only
light toning to suggest nine decades of existence, while the box,
emblazoned on the lid with the words, "Golden Jubilee, National
League, Feb. 2, 1926," exhibits typical storage wear with split
seams and some material loss. A special memento from one of the
most glamorous evenings of pre-war American sports history.